Monday, March 2, 2009
Anonymity
I think my recent theme of ignorance may have been a bit prescient. This weekend I came across several incidences in my own experience that demonstrated to me how ignorant our populace really is.
These are people I know and love so I won't name any names, and I won't tell the stories of what happened, but I learned that people really do believe that Barack Obama is a muslim and that this is their way of taking over the United States. I learned that people really do think that George W. Bush was well intentioned in his actions the past 8 years, and that his first concern was for the American people.
I have to ask, how is it that people can honestly be blind to reality? How can they think that an administration that plain lied to us, by telling us they weren't listening to ALL of our communications, when they were, by telling us we don't torture when we were, by telling us "the foundations of the economy are strong." when they weren't, AND THEY KNEW IT! By responding to the statement that "2/3 of Americans say the war in Iraq is not worth fighting." with the single word, "So."
My issue here is not so much with George and Dick, they're history and I'm not so into railing about them as I was when they were in office. I'm really going to try not to be one of those people who rails about the last guy a decade after he left office. Like some people still do about a blow job. But my issues here are with our government in toto.
How can our government say it acts responsibly, no matter WHO is in the White house, no matter WHO is in the majority in congress when people are allowed to be as stupid as the American Public apparently is.
We chose them to lead. We chose them to provide us with the basic tools necessary to succeed in being and remaining a superpower. We asked them to give us the tools to hold that position. And they not only fail us, they willfully deprive us of the very thing we should be given a surplus of. Education.
If he succeeds in giving us health care, more power to him, if he succeeds in halving the deficit, more power to him, BUT, he needs to expand and empower the educational system. He needs to rid us of all these egotistical bureaucrats who currently are running the system into the ground and re-create our educational system so that no child really is left behind. So that the system that is geared to the lowest common denominator will also serve those who CAN succeed. So that those who are willing and interested in excelling will be able to do so and not drowned in the mediocrity they're forced to endure every single day of their lives in classrooms all over this country.
It's not just his responsibility, it's everyones. We have to stand up and demand our right to a quality education. Not one that's handed out by people who happen to have a B.A. and passed the certification tests, but by people who earnestly believe in the value of learning and are passionate about sharing that belief.
These are people I know and love so I won't name any names, and I won't tell the stories of what happened, but I learned that people really do believe that Barack Obama is a muslim and that this is their way of taking over the United States. I learned that people really do think that George W. Bush was well intentioned in his actions the past 8 years, and that his first concern was for the American people.
I have to ask, how is it that people can honestly be blind to reality? How can they think that an administration that plain lied to us, by telling us they weren't listening to ALL of our communications, when they were, by telling us we don't torture when we were, by telling us "the foundations of the economy are strong." when they weren't, AND THEY KNEW IT! By responding to the statement that "2/3 of Americans say the war in Iraq is not worth fighting." with the single word, "So."
My issue here is not so much with George and Dick, they're history and I'm not so into railing about them as I was when they were in office. I'm really going to try not to be one of those people who rails about the last guy a decade after he left office. Like some people still do about a blow job. But my issues here are with our government in toto.
How can our government say it acts responsibly, no matter WHO is in the White house, no matter WHO is in the majority in congress when people are allowed to be as stupid as the American Public apparently is.
We chose them to lead. We chose them to provide us with the basic tools necessary to succeed in being and remaining a superpower. We asked them to give us the tools to hold that position. And they not only fail us, they willfully deprive us of the very thing we should be given a surplus of. Education.
If he succeeds in giving us health care, more power to him, if he succeeds in halving the deficit, more power to him, BUT, he needs to expand and empower the educational system. He needs to rid us of all these egotistical bureaucrats who currently are running the system into the ground and re-create our educational system so that no child really is left behind. So that the system that is geared to the lowest common denominator will also serve those who CAN succeed. So that those who are willing and interested in excelling will be able to do so and not drowned in the mediocrity they're forced to endure every single day of their lives in classrooms all over this country.
It's not just his responsibility, it's everyones. We have to stand up and demand our right to a quality education. Not one that's handed out by people who happen to have a B.A. and passed the certification tests, but by people who earnestly believe in the value of learning and are passionate about sharing that belief.
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